The approach mentioned above needs innovations and inventions in core technology areas such as materialsciences, electronics, fluid mechanics, power systems and the like.
This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advanced materialsciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.
Corporate clients might be harder to come by but would probably be drawn from sectors that deal with materialsciences, particularly engineering or metallurgy, where a low-gravity environment would make possible types of research and production that are impossible or prohibitively expensive on Earth.